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Spectre and Meltdown explained: A comprehensive guide for professionals
2019-02-01 13:52

Staying up to date on Spectre and Meltdown can be challenging. This guide includes in-depth explanations about these uniquely dangerous security vulnerabilities and the best mitigation solutions.

A year after Spectre and Meltdown, how well do patches work?
2018-12-21 11:00

Attempts to mitigate the landmark vulnerabilities have caused crashes, sudden reboots, and performance degradations. Here's the progress report on the Spectre and Meltdown solution.

Microsoft details the causes of its recent multi-factor authentication meltdown
2018-11-26 18:51

Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week. Here's what happened.

Another Meltdown, Spectre scare: Data-blabbing holes continue to haunt Intel, AMD, Arm
2018-11-14 21:38

CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks – but eggheads disagree Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that...

More Spectre/Meltdown-Like Attacks
2018-11-14 21:30

Back in January, we learned about a class of vulnerabilities against microprocessors that leverages various performance and efficiency shortcuts for attack. I wrote that the first two attacks...

Researchers Disclose 7 New Meltdown, Spectre Attacks
2018-11-14 17:59

A team of researchers has described seven new variants of the notorious Meltdown and Spectre attacks, and they claim some of these methods are not mitigated by existing patches, but Intel...

Researchers discover seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks
2018-11-14 17:54

Experiments showed that processors from AMD, ARM, and Intel are affected.

7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs
2018-11-14 15:33

Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited...

Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks
2018-11-14 01:50

Systemic analysis reveals a range of new issues, and a need for new mitigations.

New Ninth-Gen Intel CPUs Shield Against Some Spectre, Meltdown Variants
2018-10-09 19:37

New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants.